And we decided to create a story and a world, and I started with writing fantasy. Me and my kids were talking about it every night before they went to bed. Both of them are great fans of Lord Of The Rings, so they were telling me, let's create a world of our own. I was discussing it with my children, who were then in school.

So, I wanted to find a hobby that would be intellectually stimulating for me, and that is how I started writing. And suddenly after retirement it might become zero. One of the things is that when you are a senior person in the corporate world, you're working something like 16 hours, 18 hours a day. The first part was, when I was about 50 years old, retirement was looming in the next few years, and I had to find something to do after retirement. R V Raman: Well, it's actually a long answer, but I'll try and give it to you.

Jaya Bhattacharji Rose: Sir, my first very first question to you is, how did you get into writing? The second book in this series is called Grave Intentions, and this is the book that we are here to discuss. The Harith Athreya series is published now by Pushkin Press in the UK and distributed in South Asia by Penguin Random House India. The first book in this series, A Will To Kill, was recommended by The New York Times in its editor’s choice list. Having travelled extensively in India and abroad, Raman takes his readers to real life locations through his mysteries, locations that the readers might not otherwise visit.Īlso listen: How Kevin Missal Mines Hindu Mythology For His BestsellersĮach story in his Harith Athreya series, for example, that we are here to talk about, is set in a different, picturesque location in the vast Indian countryside. He is also the author of the Harit Athreya series – Agatha Christie-esque whodunnits which have been published in India, UK and and in America. And these are loosely based on his corporate career spanning three decades in four continents.

Mystery writer R V Raman is the author of the Inspector Ranade and Inspector Dhruva thrillers, published in India.

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